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Roberts wins bouldering gold; track cycling, athletics and more
Climbing: Great Britain’s Toby Roberts wins GOLD!
Amazing scenes as the 19 year old from Surrey doesn’t realise he has the Gold medal in the chalk bag… the news finally sinks in and he’s truly flabbergasted. Roberts has bouldered his way to GOLD in the Men’s boulder and lead final!
Japan’s Sorato Anraku – a 17 year old nicknamed ‘The Octopus’ – was the competitor many thought was nailed on for the top spot but he fell off just behind Robert’s marker at the tip of the wall to a huge 6,000 person gasp at Le Bourget!
What a story - Robert’s dad built him a climbing wall in the garden during lockdown and he only made his debut season in 2022.
CAS to hear wrestler Phogat’s appeal after disqualification
The incredible case of Vinesh Phogat will enter another chapter today. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has agreed to hear the Indian wrestler’s appeal against disqualification before the gold medal match, after Phogat weighed 100 grams over the allotted 50kg. Phogat, who cut off her hair in a bid to make the weight, received sympathy from the prime minister of India. Phogat subsequently announced her retirement from the sport.
Phogat and the Indian Olympic Association believe she should be awarded a joint silver medal. CAS will sit for the case in Paris at 2pm.
Johnson-Thompson stays top in heptathlon ... for now
It has been a tense morning at the Stade de France, where Katarina Johnson-Thompson was hoping to keep her overnight lead going into the last three events of the heptathlon. After four events yesterday she had finished the day with a lead of 48 points, with her long-time rival Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium in second with 4,007 and the younger American challenger Anna Hall in third with 3,956.
KJT has kept her hopes alive, after a shaky start in the long jump. With her third of three jumps she registered 6.40, while Thiam made 6.41 – slightly narrowing the 48-point difference between them to 45.
It was nervy stuff here though. Johnson-Thompson – who has a 6.93 personal best in this discipline – missed her first jump, registering only 4.65. She managed 6.04 on her second, registering the score with a frown. Better for the third though, making her best jump of the morning with 6.40.
So for now it’s still Johnson-Thompson in first, Thiam in second, and the Belgian Noor Vidts has gone into third 104 points behind the leader, after Hall only registered 5.93 in the long jump.
Next up it’s the javelin, one of Thiam’s strongest disciplines and one of KJT’s weakest. Could this all come down to the 800m final tonight? Exciting!
Kristof Rasovszky wins gold in the men’s 10km swim!
The finish line is in sight and the imperious Kristof Rasovszky doesn’t let his lead slip, despite the relentless pressure from Oliver Klemet. The Hungarian world champion takes Olympic gold, with Germany’s Klemet second and David Betlehem, also from Hungary, taking bronze in front of Domenico Acerenza.